304 Broughton Gifford. 
after the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul,” 3rd July, 1415. He 
was succeeded by his son Thomas, who died “the Thursday next 
after the feast of St. Edmund the Martyr,” 28 Nov., 1420, leaving 
an only daughter, Margery, as his heir. She married Sir John 
Troutbeck, and thus brought our quarter manor into that family. 
The Troutbecks were also a Cheshire family and connected with 
Chester, of which city both John and his father William were 
successively Chamberlains. The son and heir of Sir John and 
Lady Margaret was William Troutbeck, who fell at Bloreheath, 
on the Lancastrian side, being the second out of our then three 
lords who so perished in that engagement. His son Sir William 
Troutbeck lived to 10th Sept., 1510, and dying without issue, his 
niece Margaret Troutbeck, daughter of his brother Adam, was his 
heir. 
She married Sir John Talbot of Grafton, Co. Worcester, and 
thus brought our quarter manor into the Shrewsbury family, within 
about three years of the time (as we shall see by and by), that 
George 4th Earl of Shrewsbury had sold away from the Talbot 
family a moiety of the manor inherited by him. Her husband Sir 
John Talbot was the son of the Honourable Gilbert Talbot, second 
son of the 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, and (the elder branch of the 
family dying out) the great grandfather of the 9th Earl. This is the 
same Sir John Talbot whose tomb at Bromsgrove has lately (6 and 
7 May) excited so much interest in the “Shrewsbury case” before 
the House of Lords. 
Sir John is represented in a recumbent position, with his two 
wives (Margaret Troutbeck and Elizabeth Wrocheley or Wrot- 
tesley), one on each side of him. The monument is now at the 
eastern end of the North Aisle, an altar tomb, with the figures and 
top slab of alabaster, and having compartments, containing coats of 
arms, once blazoned, all round. ‘There are two inscriptions, run- 
ning round the top, one above the other, the higher in Latin, the 
lower in English, but both in precisely the same character and of 
the same date. The Latin is, “Hie jacent corpora Johannis Talbot 
militis, et domine Margarete prime uxoris, atque domine Elizabethe 
uxoris secunde, filie Waiteri Wrochelei armig. qui quidem Johannes 
